A cosmic hurricane

The giant planet Saturn is mostly a gigantic ball of rotating gas, completely unlike our solid…

Comet on 19 September 2014 – NavCam

Four-image NAVCAM mosaic of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, using images taken on 19 September 2014 when Rosetta was…

An interacting colossus

This picture, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), shows…

Helsinki, Finland

This image acquired by Japan’s ALOS satellite on 28 June 2009 shows Finland’s capital and largest…

Earth from Space: Helsinki

Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. In the…

Friendly little robot

Come and visit us at the ESTEC Open Day, 5 October 2014. Learn more about European…

The way we were

Technology image of the week: Engineering models of pioneering European satellites – such as ESRO-4, seen…

Sandstorm over the Sahara

A sandstorm over the Sahara desert in Africa seen by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst from the…

Alexander with EML

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst sawing a stuck bolt used to secure the Electromagnetic Levitator hardware for…

CAVES 2014: Mission log, day 4

NASA astronaut Scott Tingle (also known as 'Maker') is acting as photo engineer for CAVES 2014…